Dec 10 - Dec 13, 2018 @ Seattle, WA, USA

Colocated with IEEE Big Data 2018

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Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being's lives. Starting as nine BPOE Workshop series and SDBA Workshop in conjunction with ASPLOS, VLDB, and ICS, this symposium (Bench 18) is organized by International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil) and dedicated to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing complex systems, including (but not limited to) Big Data, AI, chainblock, datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing, high performance computing, Mobile Robotics, edge and fog computing，Big Scientific data, IoT, and the other miscellaneous things, i.e., education systems, financial systems, and power systems. In addition, we encourage publishing benchmark specifications and the summaries of the open-source benchmarking projects.

Call for Benchmarking Proposals

Benchmarking proposals are solicited for BenchCouncil open meeting, which will take place in Seattle, WA, on Dec 10-13. Benchmark proposals are solicited on any topic that is relevant to Bench 2018 audience, including (but not limited to):

Artificial Intelligence

NewSQL and distributed database systems

Blockchain

Datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing

High performance computing

Mobile Robotics

Egde and fog computing

Big Scientific Data

Internet of Things (IoT)

Education, financial and power system

Once a proposal is accepted, at least one of the authors should present their proposal. Meanwhile, a breakout session will be organized to discuss the benchmarking targets, major challenges, and plans. Finally, for each invited talk, a breakout report will be presented by the same speaker.After the conference, the authors should form a position paper that will be published in the proceeding of Bench 2018. Finally, for each benchmarking plan, a working group will be established, and each published position paper will act as a starting point for a formal benchmark specification, that will be released by BenchCouncil in future.

Proposals should provide the following information:

Title.

Authors and contact info.

1 paragraph abstract suitable for benchmark publicity.

biography per author suitable for publicity.

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format via e-mail to Dr. Chen Zheng (zhengchen@ict.ac.cn) and Dr. Zhen Jia (zhenj@cs.princeton.edu) with the subject "BenchCouncil Proposal". Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Nov 10, 2018
Notification: Nov 13, 2018

Call for Papers

Topics of Interest

We solicit papers in all areas related to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems. Short papers are encouraged, and the authors can extend their short papers to full versions after the conference. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

Big data domains

Artificial intelligence

NewSQL and distributed database systems

Blockchain

Datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing

High performance computing

Mobile Robotics

Edge and fog computing

Big scientific data

Internet of Things (IoT)

Education, financial and power system

Submission Site

Papers must be submitted in PDF. Short papers (no more than 4 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 6 pages in LNCS format, not including references) are encouraged, and the authors can extend their short paper to 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references, in the final publication. If a full paper is submitted, the page limit is 8 pages in standard two-column IEEE conference format or 12 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, revised papers will be published by Springer LNCS (www.springer.com/lncs, indexed by EI). Please note that LNCS format is the final one for publishing.
Formatting Instructions
IEEE conference format:
8.5" x 11" (DOC, PDF)
LaTex Formatting Macros
LNCS format:
LaTex Template
Please make sure your submission satisfies ALL of the following requirements:

Paper must be submitted in printable PDF format.

Please number the pages of your submission.

The submission must be formatted for black-and-white printers. Please make sure your figures are readable when printed in black-and-white.

The submission must describe unpublished work that is not currently under review of any other conference or journal venues.

Call for Tutorial

Tutorial proposals are solicited for Bench 2018, which will take place in Seattle, WA. Tutorials will be held on Dec 10-12.
Proposals for both half- and full-day tutorials are solicited on any topic that is relevant to the Bench 2018 audience. In our experiences, tutorials seeking to achieve either of the following goals have been particularly successful:

Describe an important piece of research infrastructure.

Educate the community on an emerging topic.

Submission Procedures

Proposals should provide the following information:

Title.

Presenter(s) and contact information.

Proposed duration (full day, half day).

1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity.

1 paragraph biography per presenter suitable for tutorial publicity.

1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include:

1. Tutorial scope and objectives,
2. Topics to be covered,
3. Target audience,
4. If the tutorial has been held previously, the location (i.e., conference), date, and number of attendees.

Proposals should be submitted in PDF format via e-mail to Lei Wang (wangle_2011@ict.ac.cn ) and Chen Zheng (zhengchen@ict.ac.cn) with the subject "Bench’18 Tutorial Proposal". Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail.

Important Dates

Submission deadline: Oct 6, 2018
Notification: October 24th, 2018

Organization

Program Chair

Prof. Jianfeng ZhanICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences